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...With declining numbers of minority studentsseeking academic careers, there's an interest insupporting efforts to increase these numbers,"said Wilson L. Hunt, Jr., counselor for Scienceand Technical Careers and Minority Concerns. Huntsaid that the Ford program will aim at "providingmentorship for minority students to encourage themto pursue academic careers" rather than opt forlaw or business school
Despite Hooper's protest that a feminist Women's Studies rises above propaganda and politicking, she herself tells us. "The aim of Women's Studies is to initiate controversy and change, forcing the reexamination of constraining social structures." I have considerable misgivings about department whose goal is "to initiate change," and whose reading list has the stamp of approval of the N.O.W...
...promoting their films, independents avoid the mass-market techniques employed by major studios. Instead, they aim for bargain exposure to specific audiences. A Room with a View, for example, based on the E.M. Forster novel, was screened last year for a Chicago convention of English teachers, who were encouraged to use the film as a study aid for their students. Waiting for the Moon, a new film about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas starring Linda Hunt, will be screened for feminist groups and advertised in gay newspapers...
Feminist criticism is not intended to work as a particular propoganda. It attempts to open thought through the development of new questions, new interpretations. Such an aim would be far more effective were courses on women's effective were courses on women's issues and writing incorporated into a variety of concentrations...
...Rome press conference introducing the Instruction, Cardinal Ratzinger indicated he had anticipated negative reactions. He said the church sympathizes with the desire of couples to have children and of researchers to extend knowledge. "However, honesty of the aim and goodness of intentions are not sufficient," he insisted. "The no to certain experimentations and to certain reproductive techniques is actually a yes to man, a witness to the dignity and deliverance...